Digital-signal-processing apparatus and method

Abstract

Digital-signal-processing apparatus has a ringing-suppression-coefficient-generating device that generates a ringing suppression coefficient according to an amount of ringing occurred at an input signal, and a ringing suppression device that generates a ringing suppression signal based on high-frequency component of the input signal and the ringing suppression coefficient and suppresses the ringing by giving the ringing suppression signal to the input signal.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]The present invention contains subject matter related to Japanese Patent Application No. JP2005-161864 filed in the Japanese Patent Office on Jun. 1st, 2005, the entire contents of which being incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]This invention relates to digital-signal-processing apparatus and method as well as a program product therefor.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]In the digital signal processing, a signal with a desired band width has been passed through a finite-duration impulse response (FIR) filter or an infinite-duration impulse response (IIR) filter. If processing the digital signal using the FIR filter, so-called Gibbs phenomenon in the Fourier transform occurs because an infinite impulse response of ideal filter is finitely carried out, thereby resulting in an occurrence of ringing in transition regions from a passing region to blocking region and vice versa...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]It is desirable to present digital-signal-processing apparatus and method as well as a program product therefor, which can suppresses any ringing in an input signal without sacrificing any blocking property in the filter.

[0013]According to any embodiments of the invention, the ringing suppression coefficient is generated according to an amount of ringing occurred at the input signal. The suppression signal is generated based on high-frequency component of the input signal and the ringing suppression coefficient. The ringing is suppressed by adding the ringing suppression signal to the input signal. This allows any ringing in the input signal to be suppressed without sacrificing any blocking property.

Problems solved by technology

If multiplying the transition in the signal by a small coefficient to suppress the ringing, it is insufficient to suppress the ringing when the blocking property in the filter has preference to a suppression of ringing.

For instance, when processing any digital image signals by a high-order FIR filter, the ringing may occur at a portion of the image, which has a larger difference in contrasts, (an edge portion in the image changed from black to white and vice versa) to result in any deterioration of the image so that the edge can appear doubly or triply.

If the mixture ratio of the digital signals received from the first low-pass filter having the sharp blocking property and the second low-pass filters having the loose blocking property alters, it is insufficient to suppress the ringing when the blocking property in the filter has preference to a suppression of ringing by increasing a ratio of output from the first low-pass filter.

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